Lucian of Samosata, Fugitivi, Austin Morris Harmon (Translator), 32

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[32] SECOND SLAVE-OWNER And you, scoundrel! are you not Pomander, who ran away from me? Nobody else! O how you make me laugh! After that, what cannot happen? Even Pomander a philosopher!

HERMES

This third fellow—has he no master among you? THIRD SLAVE-OWNER Yes, I am his master, but even so, I gladly consign him to perdition! Why?

HERMES

THIRD SLAVE-OWNER Because he is a fearful sort of rotter. The name we used to call him was Stinkadore.

HERMES

Heracles, deliver us! do you hear that? And then wallet and staff! Here, you! (to HusBaNpD) Take away your wife, yourself!

HUSBAND

Never in the world! I don’t care to take her away with an old book under her apron.

HERMES

Book? What do you mean?

HUSBAND

My dear fellow, there is a book called Tricipitine.¹

HERMES

Nothing surprising in that, as there is one called Triphallic.²

Fugitivi. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.

Funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

The Runaways (English) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

Editions (1)

Δραπέται Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 32 focus

σὺ δέ, ὦ κακέ, οὐ Ληκυθίων οὑμὸς δραπέτης τυγχάνεις;¹ οὐ μὲν οὖν ἄλλος. ὢ τοῦ γέλωτος. εἶτα τί οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο; καὶ Ληκυθίων φιλοσοφεῖ.

Ἑρμῆς

ὁ τρίτος δὲ οὗτος ἀδέσποτος ὑμῖν ἐστιν;

Δεσπότης γ

Οὐδαμῶς, ἀλλʼ ὁ δεσπότης ἐγὼ ἑκὼν ἀφίημι αὐτὸν ἀπολωλέναι.

Ἑρμῆς

ὅτι τί;

Δεσπότης γ

ὅτι δεινῶς τῶν ὑποσάθρων ἐστίν. τὸ δʼ ὄνομα Μυρόπνουν αὐτὸν ἐκαλοῦμεν.

Ἑρμῆς

Ἡράκλεις ἀλεξίκακε, ἀκούεις; ἔπειτα πήρα καὶ βάκτρον. — καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπόλαβε τὴν γυναῖκα σύ.

Ἀνήρ

μηδαμῶς. οὐκ ἂν ἀπολάβοιμι βιβλίον μοι τῶν παλαιῶν κυοῦσαν.

Ἑρμῆς

πῶς βιβλίον;

Ἀνήρ

ἔστιν τι, ὦ ἀγαθέ, Τρικάρανος βιβλίον.

Ἑρμῆς

Οὐδὲν ἄτοπον, ἐπεὶ καὶ Τριφάλης.²

Translations (1)

The Runaways Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 4. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 32 focus

[32]

Second Master

Ha, you rascal there, am I mistaken, or are you my lost Lecythio? Lecythio it is, What a figure! Lecythio a philosopher! I'll believe anything after this.

Hera

Does none of you know anything about this other?

Third Master

Oh yes, he is_mine; but he may go hang for me.

Hera

And why is that?

Third Master

Ah, he’s a sadly leaky vessel, is Rosolio, as we used to call him.

Hera

Gracious Heracles! did you hear that? Rosolio with wallet and stick!—Friend, here is your wife again.

Innkeeper

Thank you for nothing. Ill have no woman brought to bed of an old book in my house.

Hera

How am I to understand that?

Innkeeper

Why, the Three-headed Dog is a book, master?

Hera

Ay, and so was the Man with the Three Hats, for that Matter.

Notes on the current edition

The Runaways

The book called Three-Headed was an attack on Athens, Sparta, and Thebes, attributed to Theopompus (cf. below, p. 409) but probably written by Anaximenes.

The Triphales of Aristophanes, supposed to have been a scurrilous satire on Alcibiades.

Lucian of Samosata Fugitivi 32

Austin Morris Harmon (Translator)

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σὺ δέ, ὦ κακέ, οὐ Ληκυθίων οὑμὸς δραπέτης τυγχάνεις;¹ οὐ μὲν οὖν ἄλλος. ὢ τοῦ γέλωτος. εἶτα τί οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο; καὶ Ληκυθίων φιλοσοφεῖ.

Ἑρμῆς

ὁ τρίτος δὲ οὗτος ἀδέσποτος ὑμῖν ἐστιν;

Δεσπότης γ

Οὐδαμῶς, ἀλλʼ ὁ δεσπότης ἐγὼ ἑκὼν ἀφίημι αὐτὸν ἀπολωλέναι.

Ἑρμῆς

ὅτι τί;

Δεσπότης γ

ὅτι δεινῶς τῶν ὑποσάθρων ἐστίν. τὸ δʼ ὄνομα Μυρόπνουν αὐτὸν ἐκαλοῦμεν.

Ἑρμῆς

Ἡράκλεις ἀλεξίκακε, ἀκούεις; ἔπειτα πήρα καὶ βάκτρον. — καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπόλαβε τὴν γυναῖκα σύ.

Ἀνήρ

μηδαμῶς. οὐκ ἂν ἀπολάβοιμι βιβλίον μοι τῶν παλαιῶν κυοῦσαν.

Ἑρμῆς

πῶς βιβλίον;

Ἀνήρ

ἔστιν τι, ὦ ἀγαθέ, Τρικάρανος βιβλίον.

Ἑρμῆς

Οὐδὲν ἄτοπον, ἐπεὶ καὶ Τριφάλης.²

Second Master

Hera

Third Master

Hera

Third Master

Hera

Innkeeper

Hera

Innkeeper

Hera

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

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σὺ δέ, ὦ κακέ, οὐ Ληκυθίων οὑμὸς δραπέτης τυγχάνεις; 1 οὐ μὲν οὖν ἄλλος. ὢ τοῦ γέλωτος. εἶτα τί οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο; καὶ Ληκυθίων φιλοσοφεῖ.

Ἑρμῆς ὁ τρίτος δὲ οὗτος ἀδέσποτος ὑμῖν ἐστιν;

Δεσπότης γ Οὐδαμῶς, ἀλλʼ ὁ δεσπότης ἐγὼ ἑκὼν ἀφίημι αὐτὸν ἀπολωλέναι.

Ἑρμῆς ὅτι τί;

Δεσπότης γ ὅτι δεινῶς τῶν ὑποσάθρων ἐστίν. τὸ δʼ ὄνομα Μυρόπνουν αὐτὸν ἐκαλοῦμεν.

Ἑρμῆς Ἡράκλεις ἀλεξίκακε, ἀκούεις; ἔπειτα πήρα καὶ βάκτρον. — καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπόλαβε τὴν γυναῖκα σύ.

Ἀνήρ μηδαμῶς. οὐκ ἂν ἀπολάβοιμι βιβλίον μοι τῶν παλαιῶν κυοῦσαν.

Ἑρμῆς πῶς βιβλίον;

Ἀνήρ ἔστιν τι, ὦ ἀγαθέ, Τρικάρανος βιβλίον.

Ἑρμῆς Οὐδὲν ἄτοπον, ἐπεὶ καὶ Τριφάλης. 2

Second Master

Hera

Third Master

Hera

Third Master

Hera

Innkeeper

Hera

Innkeeper

Hera

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

σὺ δέ, ὦ κακέ, οὐ Ληκυθίων οὑμὸς δραπέτης τυγχάνεις;¹ οὐ μὲν οὖν ἄλλος. ὢ τοῦ γέλωτος. εἶτα τί οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο; καὶ Ληκυθίων φιλοσοφεῖ.

Ἑρμῆς

ὁ τρίτος δὲ οὗτος ἀδέσποτος ὑμῖν ἐστιν;

Δεσπότης γ

Οὐδαμῶς, ἀλλʼ ὁ δεσπότης ἐγὼ ἑκὼν ἀφίημι αὐτὸν ἀπολωλέναι.

Ἑρμῆς

ὅτι τί;

Δεσπότης γ

ὅτι δεινῶς τῶν ὑποσάθρων ἐστίν. τὸ δʼ ὄνομα Μυρόπνουν αὐτὸν ἐκαλοῦμεν.

Ἑρμῆς

Ἡράκλεις ἀλεξίκακε, ἀκούεις; ἔπειτα πήρα καὶ βάκτρον. — καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπόλαβε τὴν γυναῖκα σύ.

Ἀνήρ

μηδαμῶς. οὐκ ἂν ἀπολάβοιμι βιβλίον μοι τῶν παλαιῶν κυοῦσαν.

Ἑρμῆς

πῶς βιβλίον;

Ἀνήρ

ἔστιν τι, ὦ ἀγαθέ, Τρικάρανος βιβλίον.

Ἑρμῆς

Οὐδὲν ἄτοπον, ἐπεὶ καὶ Τριφάλης.²